On 2/14/07, Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen canonical.com> wrote:
> * "Philip Wyett"
>
> | /me will leave alone the rush for eye candy that is
currently in
> | progress and only supported on a few cards with in
most cases
> | proprietary drivers. :-/
>
> To be fair; compiz and friends work just fine on this
two year old
> Thinkpad X40 with just an i855 graphics chip. It's not
really heavy
> for the graphics card, you just need the minimal OpenGL
acceleration.
>
I have to second that one. I was really impress by the
performance of
Feisty's compiz on my little Dell Latitude 110l with its
integrated
intel 915gm ship. I was expecting more of a horror story,
considering
all the stories about Vista's eye candy nowadays and the
need for top
of the line graphics card to even be able to turn it on.
But it
turned out to be quite fine in Ubuntu. The only thing is
that you
need a bit of ram to drive it (the 256mb I used to have will
not be
enough...but 768mb is fine). And the eye candy is oddly
addictive for
me, something I didn't expect since I usually never go for
the bling
in my daily desktop use.
--
Daniel Robitaille
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